{"id":1074,"date":"2020-07-09T09:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T08:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/dundeeuniculture\/?p=1074"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:19","slug":"darcy-thompson-and-the-spirals-of-the-foraminifera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/darcy-thompson-and-the-spirals-of-the-foraminifera\/","title":{"rendered":"D&#8217;Arcy Thompson and the Spirals of the Foraminifera"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While the University&#8217;s museums and galleries are temporarily closed due to the coronavirus emergency, we&#8217;re sharing more of our collections online. This is the latest in a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind some of our most interesting objects and artworks. In this video we look at the amazing micro-organisms which inspired D&#8217;Arcy Thompson&#8217;s interest in applying mathematics to biology. The film features images from the D&#8217;Arcy Thompson Zoology Museum; photomicrographs taken from D&#8217;Arcy&#8217;s original slides by Dr Alan Prescott, School of Life Sciences; as well as images from the University of Dundee, the University of St Andrews Museum Collections and private collections. You can find out more about our collections at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dundee.ac.uk\/museum\">www.dundee.ac.uk\/museum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"D&#039;Arcy Thompson and the Spirals of the Foraminifera\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rkfOng4fOKk?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While the University&#8217;s museums and galleries are temporarily closed due to the coronavirus emergency, we&#8217;re sharing more of our collections online. This is the latest in a series of films in which museum curator Matthew Jarron tells the stories behind some of our most interesting objects and artworks. In this video we look at the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":1103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,22],"tags":[34],"class_list":["post-1074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-museums","category-science","tag-museums-curator-chat"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6490,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1074\/revisions\/6490"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}